David gumming



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID CUMMING, JR., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

INKSTAND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,39 l, dated December13, 1864.

To @ZZ whom it 11i/tty concern,.-

Beit known that I, DAVID CUMMTNG, Jr., of New York, in the coun ty andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inInkstands; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the construction and operation oft-he saine,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspfeilication, in which- Figure l is an elevation; Fig. 2, a verticalsection, and Fig. 3 a horizontal plan.

rlhe same letters refer to correspondin,g1 parts in the differentfigures, in which A is the case; B, the bottoni; G, the ink-bottle; D,the stopper, and E E holes in the case to receive the penholders whennot in use.

The bottom is attached to the case by the pivot F, which allows it to beturned round, so that the ink-bottle can be placed within the case whenthe bottom is returned and kept in its position under the case by thecatch Gr.

There is a large quantity of ink sold put up in bottles similar to theink-bottle herein described which are themselves used for inkstands, buthave the objections of being small and light, and therefore easilyupset, and the stopper is liable to be mislaid or lost, and

they have no place in which to put the pen` holder when not in use, allof which objections are obviated by the use of the herein-describedinvention, which provides a larger and heavier base, and by having thestopper attached to DAVID GUMMING, JR. Witnesses:

W. S. PRICE., WILLIAM NoUAK.

